Frozen animals in ice activity

If you have a few plastic play animals laying around, freeze them in water for this easy ice animal rescue activity for kids! It's such a fun sensory play idea for toddlers and preschool students as they try to rescue the ocean animals from the ice, and it's also fun excavation project for older kids to figure out how to best break through the frozen pieces! #sensoryplay #icerescue #iceactivity #icesensoryplay

Gracen and I are lucky enough to have one of her little friends join us for an afternoon of play each Wednesday. They play quite well together, so I put a few things out for them to explore in advance, then step back to let them play, helping communication and sharing happen when needed. We…

FROZEN Snow Slime - two great sensory play materials in one! Make sparkly snow slime and then freeze it for a fun adventure in texture, temperature, and Arctic sensory play.

Everything is possible in imagination, right? So lets say these animal got stuck and frozen in an ice age? Well..we need to save them! We had a lot of fun playing and discovering all the little animal

Simple water experiments for home, school, or camp! Explore water with easy to set up experiments and activities for kids to try.

Something that my kiddos have gotten really into this summer is ice play. To be honest, I never thought about freezing toys before. Why would you put a perfectly good toy in a block of ice?! I just didn’t understand it… that is, until I did it. And, boy, let me tell you. It is […]

Brittany | Kids/Toddler/Baby Activities on Instagram: "Let’s race with ice! @montessorifromtheheart shared a reel about freezing little plastic penguins and I thought they would be so fun to race! We froze our animals overnight in muffin tins and created a racetrack with cardboard and tin foil for this fun activity. After my kids were done racing, they had fun smashing the ice and “rescuing” the animals. Let us know if you try it! #kidsactivities #kidsactivity #kidsplay #kidsplayideas #

You may not be able to take your kids to the Arctic, but you can bring the chill of the Arctic ice to them with an Arctic habitat sensory bin! Blue water, droppers, and Arctic animals frozen in ice make this polar sensory bin inviting. Will your curious preschoolers be able to get the polar animals out of the icebergs? Create this simple Arctic sensory bin and let your explorers begin chipping away at the ice to find out!

KAYLA | Life with Little Loves on Instagram: "It is so hot in our part of the world right now, so my playgroup consists of a lot of ice and water play! Balloon ice is always so effective. I’ve done it with flowers, dinosaurs, ocean animals and this time I simply put a few drops of food dye and filled them with water. Super easy and very satisfying to peel when frozen 😂 Aside from cooling us down, this activity was great for colour recognition and language development. Children explore…

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